BDX Intake Install
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Pilot all of the holes from the bumper or they'll turn out sloppy. Use a reemer for the ruff edges of the holes in the bumper, if you don't have one you can pick one up at a plumbing supply ask for a pencil reemer. Wash the bumper and swab it with alchohal before you apply the mesh. Work the addhesive into the plastic a hair dryer helps to make the glue tackier.
took some pics after I polished the tunnel. A roto zip works pretty well for the tabs.
Maybe its just me, I don't see how these types of intakes are good for anything other than trail riding or sucking hot underhood heat in the deep pow.
If the front of the sled is covered in powder and at times plowing... I just don't see how it can breathe cold air.
Take your buddy in a parking lot with 2 feet of pow and do the wheelbarrow... Once he starts pushing snow and his head is covered, ask him how easily it is to breathe.
Not trying to offend anyone.
If the front of the sled is covered in powder and at times plowing... I just don't see how it can breathe cold air.
Take your buddy in a parking lot with 2 feet of pow and do the wheelbarrow... Once he starts pushing snow and his head is covered, ask him how easily it is to breathe.
Not trying to offend anyone.
+1 i have been looking at this intake for my m8 also and i dont see how it would work very well
meh so far so good, venting helps a bunch.
Like I said, I'm not trying to piss anyone off.
I just don't understand the theory of these types of intakes in deep powder.
From what I can tell they try to block off the top of the box to isolate it from the engine compartment... So air must (for the most part) be pulled in from the nose cone area right? In deep pow is this efficient?
Venting can only take you so far... Vent the nose of the sled but in deep pow the nose is covered... What was acomplished?
You can have a lot of venting in other areas of the hood... The air has to come in and pass through the engine compartment to get to the nose of the sled if it is even possible with this type of intake... Is it not heated up at this point?
Well theres goin to be drawbacks or else they would roll out the factory like that. Putting around in deep powder it felt a little boggy but climbing and sidehilling was unchanged. The intake was a decent way to lose some #'s and made the throttle more snappy. This along with gutting the insulation and the headlight delete was a pretty decent weight loss(13#'s rings a bell). I have the stock intake ready to slap back on there in 15 min if a stuckfest is in the forecast 
yes, i must agree.... not the best idea i've seen for mtn powder
I've ridden over hood pow & never had a problem, the intake pulls from the ski wells & where the steering linkage is as well. With stock once your intake bezels cover up you have a problem, but with this it does well. I think the difference is all the coverage area, you pull from so many places that it is able to pull air from the snow whereas on the stock setup it just clogs because it's such a small surface area.
I know a ton of guys with the vohk intake (same basic thing as bdx) and the bdx intake, never seen one of them have a problem in the deep other than the usual R side exh bog that some have.
For the $$ & the weight loss I think it's one of the best mods you can do.
I know a ton of guys with the vohk intake (same basic thing as bdx) and the bdx intake, never seen one of them have a problem in the deep other than the usual R side exh bog that some have.
For the $$ & the weight loss I think it's one of the best mods you can do.
